The Herd with Colin Cowherd - THE HERD - Hour 3 - Patriots big win last night, Drake Maye is showing improvement, Bill Belichick is out of touch, Drew Bledsoe

Episode Date: October 6, 2025

Plus, 4-time Pro Bowl QB Drew Bledsoe joins the show to talk about Patriots quarterback Drake Maye’s breakout performance vs. the Buffalo Bills. They also explore why Bill Belichick is having trouble adapting as a college head coach and what it says about his coaching futureSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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One, I didn't like the direction of the dolphins or the jets, and I thought they could go four-and-oh. And I also think so much of Mike Frable, who's just a really bright guy. everybody have ever known that knows Mike just instantly connects with him. Drew Bledsoe knows him. They actually played together for a year, and Drew is joining us. Undisclosed location in the Northwest, I'm jealous. That's all I'm going to say. A beautiful, beautiful place.

So you were only a teammate for a year, but everybody I know that's played with him or been in a staff, he just is, you know, Drew, some guys just have a connectability. And so tell me about your relationship with Vrabil in the year you played with him. You know, it's funny because I only played with Mike for one year, but it seems like we were teammates for like five or six years. You know, we just had a great connection personally. You know, it's not a surprise to me or to anybody that knows Mike that he's had great success as a coach. You know, one funny thing about Mike is that he just had so damn much energy as a player. You know, he would, you know, in the middle of practice, he would go run scout team kickoff coverage just to burn off some energy.

I've compared him to like a like a like a. Labrador, you know, like you got to run him, you know, like you had to run him. And honestly, that's how Braves ended up catching all those touchdowns that he caught. I get credit for those, column, because before games, he had to burn off energy before NFL games. So I would go out and throw the ball to him in pregame. And that's when, you know, Charlie Wise and Belichick saw him running around and decided to put him in on offense.

So he owes me for all of those touchdown catches. He certainly does. I will say Drake May, I liked him at Carolina, I just thought he was kind of rough. But, you know, Vrable kept saying he just needs to understand. You got to be a leader on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. I was almost like saying, I love you. This is your team now. But I do think, Drew, you know this.

When you go to an NFL team, you're the youngest guy in the team for the first two or three years. And yet your coach is like, all right, be a leader. You're talking to 37-year-old left tackles. Give me a little of your experience in Drake May. When you are a young guy looking older players in the face and like, hey, I need you to do this, this and this. Colin, it was intimidating, man. I mean, I was 21.

I just turned 21 stepping into the huddle with grown-ass men. Like, these people have families and investment portfolios. And I'm just fresh out of college. And that's where Drake is. But being a leader doesn't mean you have to be vocal right away. You know, you can initially, you just get the job done. You show up early, you stay late, you work hard, you try to win the wind sprints, you try to do all the little things that you can do physically. And then you earn the right to be heard vocally.

And, you know, but watching, watching Drake and his progression, you know, it's, I think the comparisons, and I, you know, look, we're not going to put the guy in the Hall of Fame quite yet, but the comparisons to Josh Allen are, I think, are very real. You know, you remember Josh's, you know, first year, you know, a lot of interceptions, pretty rough around the edges, accuracy. maybe wasn't great. And then you watched his progression. And now he's, you know, certainly in the conversation for best in the game. And I think the comparisons between Drake May and Josh Allen are real. I really do. And that's high praise for Drake as just a second year player. But I think that's very real. So, you know, this happens in the NFL from time to time. We all know coaches matter and quarterbacks are the key, but coordinators matter. And right now, Philly's got talent, but they have no identity. They don't know what the hell they are.

and it's almost like, you know, they've had so much success. It's like, guys, you're kind of a blue collar punching the mouth offense. That's kind of what you are. Don't be bashful. Again, when you watch Philly and you're like, how does Sequin have six carries? Is it hard sometimes, Drew, when you could be winning or losing and you kind of lose who you are as an offense? Have you ever been in a spot like that?

You're like, I know I got the players, but we forgot what we are. Yeah, you know, I think, Philly, you're exactly right. They're a punch you in the mouth, run the football, play defense, play action, you know, big play, you know, a team. And that's, you know, that's, that's, that's who they are. You know, but in order, you know, in order to play that way, though, you have to be remarkably consistent. You know, you have to convert third down so you can keep running the football. You know, you've got to get the defensive stops.

You've got to be, you know, you've got to be on schedule, you know, and we, you know, meaning, you know, you know, get four yards on first. down and get three or four yards on second down so your third down so you can run the ball and you know you can execute the tush push and do all of those things and so you just have to be remarkably consistent with all of your execution in order to play that way and i just think you're seeing a little bit of inconsistency out of the out of the eagles offense right now now i you know they're four and one i don't and they played you know the broncos are a good football team and you know so there's no reason to panic uh you know with what's going on with the eagles but but their identity is their identity you know and it's it's fitting for phil you

because that's what Philly is as a city. You know, it's a blue-collar city. And that's the way the Eagles. But they have to be remarkably consistent offensively to play the style of the plan. So you were the rare, like Peyton Manning, you're a five-star high school kid. You're a great college guy.

You're a top draft pick. So you didn't, like Baker Mayfield had to walk on. And a lot of these guys transfer, you didn't have that nasty chip on the shoulder. You may have had it from how you were treated by somebody else, but you came in like you're the guy, you're going to get paid, that's not your life.

And I said, I think chip on the shoulder is important, as long as it doesn't consume you and define you. I thought it kind of defined Baker for about three years. It's like, dude, you don't have to go to the press conference every week and pick a fight.

Sometimes it's okay to be like, hey, I'm talented guy. Baker and Sam yesterday, I had a lot of critics. To watch them yesterday, I'm like, I almost wonder if all the crap they went through is actually why they're so good.

Do you buy that? I think there's something to that, Colin. You know, you look at Baker and I was, I was curious to see how he handled that, you know, because he was that underdog guy, the walk-on had to transfer and had to move schools. And then all of a sudden, you know, it's top draft pick. And, you know, it's hard to have a chip on your shoulder when you're the number one overall draft pick. That doesn't really fly. People aren't looking down on you anymore.

And I think that's an adjustment. But I think that's kind of just how he's wired. And it's kind of the way he plays. You know, he plays a little bit like Fav, you know, where he just, you know, he kind of needs to get hit. He needs to run around. He needs to be a football player, you know, rather than just a, you know, a game manager type of quarterback. And that's when he's at his best, I think. And so, you know, sometimes you have to manufacture that chip on your shoulder.

And, you know, so maybe that's why Baker was so at times so contentious with the media because he was just trying to create this. chip on his shoulder when it wasn't actually real. But the guy's got real arm talent. You know, you look at it like he's a smaller guy, but you look at the throws he makes. You know, this guy, he can spin it. You know, this is not a guy that's getting by on, you know, average ability. He can really throw the ball. And, you know, so, you know, for him to be looked at as this underdog anymore, I don't think is accurate.

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And I love college football. I love it. And my theory is always, once you buy into your own supply, you're done. It doesn't matter how smart you are. or once you get rigid. The late Bobby Knight's like, I'm not going to do one and duns. Well, bro, everybody else is doing them.

You got to put your arm around it. And Belichick, you know, he said later in his career, it's like there's certain guys that don't want to coach. Well, you got to, you need talent. You can't, you're buying into your own hype. Vrable is about the players. Bill became about Bill. I watch him in college,

and my takeaway is Bill just wants to coach who he wants to coach. And I didn't think he would, dominate college football, but are you surprised just how bad it's been? You, you know, you obviously know, I mean, it's, it's just, I mean, college football is kind of a young guy's game. He may just not be, he may not work at this level, Drew. Yeah, you know, I think it's, it's tough, Colin. And, and Bill is obviously brilliant. There's no getting around that. But he also put together teams in New England that were brilliant. You know, you look at the guys on the defenses that he coached and the you know you got uh you know really brilliant guys rable was one of those guys

you know teddy bruskey you know tie law lawyer maloy rodney harrison you know you look at all of these guys that he was coaching you know he had brilliant guys with him and that was that really worked well for him because bill's a brilliant guy but you have to have brilliant players in order to you know to to to really showcase that um and i also just think man you know you just look at the optics and i'm not piling on bill here but you know you're you're You're going to go sit in the living room with a 17-year-old. You know, do you want to go play for Bill Belichick as a 17-year-old? You know, or do you want to go, you know,

trust me, I hate the ducks, but there's, you know, but I would love to play for Dan Lannning, you know, and you just look at what he's dealing with. I think it's tough for him. Settle down, but I, sorry, my dog's going to attack. I love dogs. My dog's going to attack a fair. But I think, you know, I think with, it's just, it's an up,

It's an uphill battle for him because he's got to surround himself with, you know, really brilliant players in order to execute the stuff that he wants to do. By the way, what would your dog possibly be barking at? What's your dog's name? That's Tyson. He's a trained killer. He's, yeah, he's going to go chase the bears off of our property up here and just keep us safe. Okay.

I was going to say, I know where you're at. There's not a lot to bark at where you're at right now. It's beautiful. Yeah. No, it's good. But he keeps us safe, man. We sleep tight at night, knowing we have this little attack dog.

I want to end with this. Dak Prescott, I never thought he was a great armed talent. But he did something very early in his career, and I got so much crud for this. He was walking up and down the sideline, and he walked by a garbage can, and there was a piece, a cup on the ground.

And he stopped, and he went back, and he grabbed it, and he put it in the garbage. And I thought, okay, that's just a, he's conscientious. And I've always thought, Jerry Jones, a bit of a circus. It's high profile. Jerry, he never says the wrong thing.

And I've been on this for years. And people crush me for this. But my whole take is, quarterback's different. I unfairly need you to be 39 years old at 22. And I look at DAC right now. And Dallas is a circus about every other week. I don't know.

Is he MVP? Like, I'm always blown away by his, maybe EQ or maturity. How do you view DAC? You know, Colin, there was one thing that was really, really telling, and it's something that you can look at with players. You look at how their teammates react to them, right? And it was really telling you remember when Dak got hurt a few years back?

His teammates were in tears when Dak went down. And so that really tells you everything you need to know about who the guy is and who he represents to his team and to his teammates. You know, they were literally, you know, guys were crying when Dak got hurt. And, you know, that, he just, he's a great leader for that team. He's a great stabilizer for that team. He was a grown-up coming in, you know, when you say you want a 39-year-old when you're 21 or 22 years old, that's who he was coming into the league.

He just showed maturity beyond his years. And to be able to be that person underneath that circus tent that the cowboys tend to be where all the eyes are on you, whether people love you or hate you, they care. You know, it's like pitching for the Yankees. People either love you or hate you. And Dak has been able to take all of that and be a true stabilizing force for that team.

And to see what he did yesterday, you know, one of the most important things that I always look at with teams is how healthy is their offensive line? With three starting offensive linemen down yesterday, I really felt like they were going to struggle. And Dak came out and just lit them up. just absolutely lit them up yeah so did i i thought the jets would be competitive i just blown away

by what i'm seeing i love these stories of these quarterbacks they get 10 000 hours it's baker it's darnald hell even carson wince yesterday these guys get banged around and criticized and demoted and uh deck has gone through a lot in dallas he's an easy guy to root for drew bledso double back winery how was your year we're almost done with harvest it looks like another great harvest up of walla walla so the uh we've got an amazing team. You know, when you talk about teams and cultures and all of that, we've got a championship level team at the winery. These are our team there. But right now, they're at the end of harvest. So they're all really tired and really grumpy. So I try to take care of them, but pop them up

a little bit because they're working, you know, 18 hour, 20 hour days right now. So, you know, it's a little prickly. But man, they just continue to make amazing wine for us. And we're having a lot of fun with it. Doubleback. Look it up. The double back winery in Walla Walla, Washington. I don't think as many hosts. I know where that's at exactly. Exactly. I can find out here. Not many people, not many people do. It's the end of the road, but it's a beautiful little town and we grow great wine grapes up there. And it's my hometown. You know, I grew up there. So it's fun to be back to running a cool business back in my hometown. And at the end of the day, we get to drink some great wine and pretend like that's our job, which is really fun. You don't age, my man. You look great.

Thanks for coming on. Likewise, Colin, always good to catch up with you, buddy. The great Drew Bledsoe, four-time pro bowler, number one pick. I can't tell you where he's at, but I Google mapped it. You know what? He has good taste and where to hang out. Very good taste. So he must be in Chicago, then? Well, that's a beautiful city.

His is a little more northwest, lake-centric. He picks good spots. J-Mack with the news. No, no, no, no. on the news. This is the herd line news. All right, Colin, let's get started with that Patriots upset last night. They were big underdogs

and a reason they were able to pull it off was Stefan Diggs went nuclear. Yeah. Ten catches for a buck 46 after the game. He talked about the revenge angle, Colin. Was this one personal for you? 100%. Obviously, I love those guys. Still got a good relationship with those guys.

Got a lot of respect for them. But I love the game of football more. And every time I go out here, I'm trying to prove it. not only to them, but to myself. Well, they needed, they needed that from him. Like, that's one of those games. We said coming into the season, they were perimeter light. Good in the trenches, perimeter light.

I'm sure. Henry, Stefan Diggs, a couple running backs that are decent. So, you know, hardcore listeners of the show, no, we've talked around it. But there was an incident between Allen and Diggs that went down. And the New England Patriots social media account, they posted a picture of Diggs side-eyeing Josh Allen. Did you see that after the game? I'm like, why are you guys feeding into this?

Alan hasn't talked about it. Diggs hasn't. We know Diggs hasn't been the greatest teammate at other stops. I'll leave it at that. Impressive win for the Patriots, no doubt. Still think the bills are the better team, right? Yeah, I mean, listen, you have bad Sundays. Like, it's just Buffalo got into a ball security issue.

And, I mean, we saw it a couple weeks ago. You know, the Colts had the Rams beat in L.A., and A.D. Mitchell fumbles it out. right like this every snap matters and these fumbles the penalties also were not great Buffalo didn't seem exactly buttoned up last night you know you think you don't think it's an upset they were an eight and a half point favorite significant that's about what the giants will be as an underdog to philly let me ask you so that division is bills and then patriots or do you think the Patriots can challenge them oh I think the Patriots are I think the Patriots are I think the

Patriots may get that sketch I think the Patriots have the better defense and if you may be bind the Jets and Dolphins, they might have like a 500 team? Like you took the best players from each of those? Or are they still like a sub? I think the Jets are in the running for a number one pick. I don't know what you do with Aaron Glenn. Start handicapping the quarterbacks every week. Dante Moore.

Carson Beck looks really good. Miami's awesome. What's the problem with Beck? He's a little thin for me. But he has had, in college, he got, you know, he transferred out of Georgia. He's been doubted. He's had to rebuild his, you know, is kind of. They got weight training programs in the NFL.

Well, I know, I know. He's a little thin. He's, I know. You know, creatine's good when you get old. Are you taking it now? Yeah, it's great for your cognitive ability. That's why we have such good symbiotic. Do you take it as well?

Of course. Great for you. Anyways, let's move on to, oh gosh, I guess we're still talking about Archmanning College. This is rough. Listen, I know there was major hype coming into the season, but bro, look at these throws. That's not even close. And he holds the ball.

His lack, I mean, that's just such a bad miss. and I know people want to defend, hey, hey, I'm off the Arch Banting train. He was terrible. Two picks took six sacks. Now, their O-line's not great. Their O-line's not great, but sometimes you have to trust your eyes. His ball sometimes doesn't have the velocity. He has bad misses. The O-line's not great.

He's barely 60%. And he's holding the ball too long. So is he seeing the field? I'm not sure he sees the field terribly long. Is he processed quick enough? Well, there is something to be said. Bo Nix's a great example. Bo last year held the ball a lot, a little, but a second too long.

Bo Nix, I was telling the staff this morning, he plays so fast now. And a lot of it is, it takes you a while to see the field. Arch Manning sat at Texas for two years. He didn't play. So you watch him and you're like, he just doesn't, I mean, you're waiting for it to pop, but he holds the ball. He doesn't see it and let it rip quick. And I'm not, Mahomes is legendary.

See it, let it rip, go accurate. Like, Mahomes is like Marino. It doesn't, most guys can't do that. But I watched Bo Nix yesterday, and I'm like, oh, my God, Bo Nix has sped his process up in the last year. Arch just feels slow and kind of ponderous back there. Yeah, it doesn't. And again, I'm not going to hammer the guy.

It doesn't seem like he processes quickly enough. So you need to be decisive as quarterback. I'm going, look at this, read, this read, Bing, bang, boom, quickly. And it doesn't feel like it's clicking. And now I will say, Arch talk to the, media afterward and it's worth listening to. As much as

lost to sting, sting your heart, this one's going to hurt. It's always something to learn from. You win some and then you learn some. So you've got to learn from this and get better. I know you're all over the Texas message boards. There is some chatter. Do we sit him down?

Do we... Soft benching, if you will. Sark, by the way, Sark is coming out defending him hard. He's like, hey, who's going to Ohio State and the swamp and winning? And it's like, well, start. You open the season number one in the country. You're now out of the top 25.

Well, and again, they started with four new offensive linemen, but Oregon had to replace all 11 starters on offense, and their offense looks unbelievable. I will say we saw this with Beck. He lost Bowers and Ladd-McConkie and regressed. This guy's missing Golden and Bond. Okay, so Lance Zerline's a guy that I bring on the show a lot. A lot of respect for Lance.

He works for, like, NFL.com. He's, he watches, he is a scout. I mean, Lance, he does radio, but he's also a scout. And he said, Arch just doesn't see the field. So when I watched the Florida game, I sat there for about two and a half hours watching a series of, you know, UCLA, Penn State, Washington, Maryland. And that's my take, is that it takes rookies in the NFL. A lot of them don't see the field quickly. Mahomes was rare.

But when I watch Arch, he's not seeing the play. He's holding the ball too long. And then when you watch the video behind him, it's like, no, bro, that's open. I would say Arch is not yet an anticipatory throw. He has to see something absolutely open. Well, that's not the NFL. And to be honest, when you play Ohio State, you have to be an anticipatory throw because Ohio State's got first-round draft picks

on that defense. We're not saying he's cooked. He can still turn it around. Anybody can turn it. Yeah, but he's just not, you can see it. It's not fast enough. It's just plotting. He's not there yet.

Final story, Colin, is the Major League Baseball playoffs. The AL playoffs have been electric, except if you're a Yankees fan. The Blue Jays have scored 23 runs in two games. Brutal. The scene in Seattle last night was really good. Mariners won their first playoff home game since 2001. Crowd was nuts. Yeah, crowd was going bonkers.

Today we get the Dodgers versus the Phillies on TBS, Cubs Brewers on TBS. And then tomorrow on Fox, these are the big ones. Mariners, Tigers, and Blue Jays, Yankees. Yankees. Yankees are desperate, must win. Look at those old throwback mariner uniforms. Yeah. Go to eBay.

You're feeling nostalgic about the baron. Well, it was my favorite team growing up. I can literally know, I went to the opener at the Kingdom against the Angels in 1977. I can give you the starting lineup. No, I think we're good on that. No, I got it. Bob Stinson, then Danny Meyer, Jose Baez, Craig Reynolds,

Bill Stein, Diego Sagi pitched, Rupert 2P Jones, and Center. All right, the producers are telling me, get him out of this. Stop! Now, please. Joking. Keep going.

Go on. Who was the DH? Did they have the D.H back then? Lee Stanton. Oh, wonderful. Awesome. And they pitched, they faced Frank Tanana,

Bobby Gritch, Joe Rudy and the Angels. Yeah, Joe Rudy Homer to left field. I was in right field way up top of the stadium. You were the nosebleeds back then. Now you're in the rich scenes.

But when I see those old Mariner uniforms, that was my first team. I listened. They were on KVI in Seattle. I listened every day. I wanted to be a baseball announcer. So our team was terrible. we had a terrible staff.

We had a guy named Enrique Romo who went to the Pirates. He was our number one. He was our number two starter. He was okay. Anyway, I know I'm boring all of you, but, you know, when you're, it was 1977, so I'm like a 13-year-old kid, and I lived for the Mariners. I mean, I listen every night. Games on FS1 tomorrow, Blue Jays, Yankees, that's way more important than your marriage. Well, I'm going to tell you something.

They're going to blame Aaron Boone, but you've got to get people out. Did you see the meme about Aaron Boone? if he didn't hit a home run against a Red Sox, he'd be coaching the Savannah bananas. Do you see that? It's kind of funny. I laughed. I'm like a lot.

Well, the Boone family, Bob, Brett, Aaron. That was the highlight of his career. I mean, you know, as a player. Game 7, I think, tip. I just don't, I think the Yankees are, they don't sacrifice,

they don't do small ball, bullpen shaky, home run reliant. I mean, they've spent a lot of money on this team, and they, they are completely reliant on John Carlos Stanton. First of all,

Garrett Cole got hurt before the season. So you're not one in a world series. I mean, if you go to the games against the Dodgers in the series last year, when Cole didn't pitch, they looked totally outmatched. They can win three straight. It's the Blue Jays. Okay, come on.

I don't know. No, the Yankees, let's be fair. I don't have it in front of me. The Yankees have dominated the American League Central. Take away the American League Central in the last 10 years in the playoffs. They didn't dominate. I'd be, uh, blue jays are pretty good. Uh, Jay Mack with the news.

Well, that's the news. And thanks for stopping by. The Hurd, It is interesting. The Giants awful, Jets awful. Nicks fire their coach. Mets flail. And, you know, everybody beats up on Aaron Boone,

but the Yankees are the most successful team in New York sports of the majors. By far, and they're the team that doesn't fire anybody. So they're the one team. They're never in chaos. Their front office, Brian, Cashman, Aaron Boone. They don't. They've only had three managers, I think, in like 30 years. They don't.

They kept Joe Tori forever. So the Yankee haters, and Yankee critics all want everybody to fire it. Well, then you'd be the Jets and the Giants and the Knicks and the Mets and that's not the Yankees. The Yankees are patient like the Dodgers. They wanted to run Dave Roberts out of town. Boom, he wins. This year, everybody, well, they don't have any energy.

When you win your division every year, it's a marathon. Dodgers have a chance tonight to go up to two nothing on the Phillies. And I honestly, I thought the Phillies would win the series because I didn't trust the Dodgers bullpen. But these baseball seasons are long and a big part of making it. work is your ability. Aaron Boone, very pro player. Dave Roberts, Dodgers, very pro player. You can't, you know, Larry Bowell was a great player. He tried to manage. You wear guys out. You got to get along with people. You've got to get along with your players when you have double. Think about this. Between spring training and the regular season, you make the playoffs. You're 200 games in.

That's just the 200 days you're with your players. What about the, what about the days you don't have a game? And you're with the players. You know, you're with the players. 25% of the year. You got to get along with him. Aaron Boone is very, players love him. It's the herd. Be sure to catch live editions of the herd weekdays in noon eastern, 9 a.m. Pacific on Fox Sports Radio, FS1 and the IHeart Radio app.

Hey, it's us to Jonas Brothers. And guess what? We have some big news. What's the news, huge news? We created our own podcast called, Hey Jonas. We invented a podcast? Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to it.

We're the first people to do podcasts. Pretty, yeah, pretty wide range of podcasts throughout there. But this one's extra special. So how did we actually come up with a name, Hey Jonas, guys? I honestly don't remember. I think it was on a call about what we should call it. Oh, we were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band. Before Jonas Brothers was.

This is how you guys remember it going down? Yes. I have a very different memory of this. We were talking about a thing, a bit for the podcast, for people could call in and say, hey Jonas, and then I wrote down on my little notepad, Hey Jonas, and offered it up as a potential title for the podcast. But thanks for remembering that, guys.

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and he was talking about Vrable was frenetic. Like just go, go, go. And Drew said he and Vrable, who's now coached in the Patriots, they beat the bills last night, connected very quickly. It's not a surprise to me or to anybody that knows Mike

that he's had great success as a coach. One funny thing about Mike is that he just had so damn much energy. as a player, you know, he would, you know, in the middle of practice, he would go run scout team kickoff coverage just to burn off some energy. I've compared him to like a Labrador, you know, like you got to run him. Yeah, and I will say this, look at the Jets and look at New England. Both the coaches, I would say the Jets, Aaron Glenn inherited more talent than New England, and look at what Aaron Glenn's done and look at what Vrable's done.

I mean, it's a, it's a really good team. And I think, you know, Drake May at Carolina, he's a hit. Bow Nix is a hit. Jaden Daniels is a hit. I think Caleb, to some level, is going to hit. Here's Matt Hasselbeck earlier on the young Drake May. They drafted Drake May for a reason. They wanted their own version of Josh Allen.

And like, that doesn't really exist. But they saw something with the third pick overall in that draft. And they said, you know what? We think that this guy could be that. You know, they tried the Mack Jones thing and they were like, yeah, you're good, but you're not Josh Allen. We're looking for Josh Allen. And we'll take the risk for the upside. And I think Drake May has everybody in New England fired up.

Well, I also think, you know, one of the real advantages is Drake May is big with a good arm. Go look at northern quarterbacks. Quarterbacks that play in cold weather. You know, Sam Donald's got a big arm. He's up in Seattle, right? And if Green Bay generally, Jordan Love, Aaron Rogers, Farr, Big Arms, Mahomes, Kansas City, Big Arm, Josh Allen, Jim Kelly, Studs in Buffalo, Big Arm, Eli Manning, Big Arm in New York. So Drake May's a big kid.

I mean, Joe Flacco had success in Baltimore. Big Ben had success in Pittsburgh. Like when you look around and you're drafting a guy, you have to consider that in the AFC. You know, who's your quarterback? Again, you want to get a guy, like Bo Nix in Denver, it gets cold, but it's usually pretty brilliant until Thanksgiving, beautiful weather. Bo Nix got a good arm. So you can get away with some of that stuff, a smaller guy, like a Bryce Young doesn't have a huge arm, it's in Carolina, or like in Atlanta, because you're playing indoors in a dome in the NFC South. But Drake May looks the part.

I did ask a couple of guests about the, I just, I don't even know what to do with it. I'm watching that fumble. I watched it live. The running back for Arizona, like the third string running back who got a chance. Demericado. Demericado. He's a third string running back. He gets a chance to play.

Bad teams like Arizona don't get 70-yard rushing touchdowns. They open up this huge hole. He burst through it. I just don't know what you're thinking. thinking. I think it's like performative. I'm going to try to be cool. But it's just now, some argued that he had reached the goal line. I thought it was, I thought it was go either way. I almost think, you know, if I was an official, I wouldn't have a lot of sympathy for showing off. It just doesn't matter. Don't leave it up to replay or certain angles or official. No, just

score the touchdown. A.D. Mitchell did the same thing last week. He's showing off. It's just like, bro. And like this guy never scored it in, or I think maybe he has an NFL. he's like a third down back, but this was essentially the game. Oh, no, no. They see Arizona wins the game. Last week, A.D. Mitchell, who by the way, mostly got, he only played six snaps yesterday in a blowout. So the Colts coaches clearly, and this, I thought that was the game for the Rams. I thought the Rams were in big trouble. Like, dude, what are you doing looking back?

Just get to the end zone. So the other problem, Colin, with Arizona, like, they could have been a playoff team this year, okay? They now have that brutal loss to the Niners when they should have beaten them. They should have beaten them. Okay? And now you have this loss to the win. Titans. You can't fall behind in that division. Rams?

Niners. Wait till the Niners get healthy. They're going to just run away and hide. And we both agree, Seattle's a pretty damn good team. So you don't want to write someone off, but you could look back at that play. That could decide their season. I'm dead serious. I don't think there's any question that that could decide their season.

You can't lose. You can't punt a game at home. And listen, I'm not quarterbacks make mistakes. People fumble. Like, I don't get worked up over it. Now, if you do have a fumble issue, Hyron Williams or the Rams. You've got to clean it up. Tiki Barbara had a fumble issue for years. He cleaned it up. But this stuff I have no patience for. And people will say like Jimmy Johnson would cut you for that.

Yeah. Listen, the Cardinals, they ended up like there was a fluky play with the interception that was fumbled and recovered in the end zone. And then they had, they had, you know, three downs to get a first down and maybe milked the clock. And Jonathan Gannon ran into the line of scrimmage three times. They said, oh, we'll punt it to Cam Ward. He's not going to do anything. And you got beat. I'm off Arizona. I mean, we've talked about coaches getting fired, whether it's McDaniel, Callahan. I think Jonathan Gannon probably gets put in that boat. You know, it's a bummer, though, because it's not a, it's not one of the better

ownership situations. You're in a tough division. You're losing games like that. I watched them play San Francisco, and I thought they gave Kyle Shanahan trouble. I thought they, I thought, I think Gannon can coach when I watch them, you know, it's for years and years. People were beating up on Chris Bauer with a Colts. The GM I take away as I'm watching.

in the games. I just need a quarterback. You get them Daniel Jones and it's like, and we don't even think Daniel Jones is great. Colts are going to win that division going away. Got to have the right pieces as a coach or a GM. Hey guys, it's us. The Jonas Brothers. I'm Joe. I'm Kevin. And I'm Nick. And guess what? We created our own podcast called, Hey Jonas.

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